Here’s a variation on my series of Pet Adoption Videos That Don’t Want to Make Me Want to Kill Myself, special for testosterone-raging Super Bowl Sunday. I thought this was a hoot and suspect most of my women friends will too but I wasn’t sure about the male reaction. Guys?
Let’s call breed bans what they are: Death sentences
No one doubts that language counts. We’ve been having a thoughtful conversation here and at This One Wild Life about the terms that should be used to discuss killing dogs at shelters, terms that would allow for sensitivity to shelter workers tasked with performing the killing but not minimize the impact of what happens. I’m…
Pet Adoption Videos that Don’t Make Me Want to Kill Myself: 4
The latest installment in my continuing series of upbeat adoption videos came to my attention via alert blogger Kristine at Rescued Insanity, who credited another blogger, who credited another blogger …. I stopped there. The source: LA Animal Services. Short, sweet, funny.
Just One Word
This morning’s email brought in a lovely, inspiring post by one of my favorite bloggers, Dr. V. Titled “I have a dream too,” it details Dr. V’s hopes for helping animals in the future. One line stopped me short, though: I have a dream that we stop putting our heads in the sand as to…
Blog the Change: Tucson’s Cause Four Paws
I had already planned to write about this terrific local charity for today’s Blog the Change for Animals event before the recent tragic shootings in Tucson. Now I’m doubly glad to have the opportunity to showcase one of the many strengths of my adopted hometown: Its devoted and compassionate community of animal lovers. *** In…
Pet Adoption Videos That Don’t Make Me Want to Kill Myself, Part 3
I’m a fairly lazy TV watcher — so lazy that I don’t even bother to change the channel when the ads come on. I have a laptop near me and just check emails, look at Facebook, Twitter, etc. during commercial breaks. Sometimes — and here’s where I’m proof that TIVO hasn’t entirely destroyed the free-enterprise…
The Taj Mahal, the Mona Lisa & Greyhound Racing
My blog is not only a guilt-free zone, but also a disturbing animal picture-free zone. Abuse depictions get me upset in a debilitating way rather than moving me to take action. Which doesn’t help any dogs. Or me. I try to focus on the happy results of rescue rather than on the conditions that may…
Anderson Cooper, Michael Vick & the Kackle Dackle
Anderson Cooper’s segment on CNN about why Michael Vick shouldn’t have a dog is the best thing I’ve seen in any medium on the topic, hands down. Update Note: The above embedded version of the Anderson Cooper segment, just added, is thanks to dog trainer, blogger (at DogSpelledForward.com), and code monkey par excellent, Eric Goebelbecker.…
If Puppies Had Second Amendment Remedies
If there were two topics that I didn’t think could turn up — much less together — in a cartoon that would make me smile, it would be the Second Amendment and puppy mills. I love being pleasantly surprised. I particularly like the expressions on the faces of the hostage-taker pups. I’m very glad the…
Just Bead It!
If my blog can be said to have a cast of characters, one of the key players — aside, of course, from Frankie — is my friend Karyn Zoldan, greyhound advocate par excellent. I’ve written often about her and her fellow beading divas, who make extremely attractive bracelets to benefit a variety of animal charities…